Faking Christmas

Faking Christmas

Kerry Winfrey

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Laurel Grant is playing house for the holidays--complete with a fake husband and kids--in this delightful, cozy rom-com by Kerry Winfrey. Laurel Grant works as the social media manager for Buckeye State of Mind, an Ohio tourism magazine and website. She is most definitely not an owner of a farm...but one tiny misunderstanding leads her boss, Gilbert, to think she owns her twin sister Holly's farm just outside of Columbus. Laurel only handles the social media for the farm, but she's happy to keep her little white lie going if it means not getting fired. And keep it going she must when Gilbert, recently dumped by his wife, invites himself over for the farm's big holiday dinner (as advertised on Meadow Rise Farm's Instagram, thanks to Laurel herself). Laurel immediately goes into panic mode to figure out how she can trick Gilbert into thinking she's basically the Martha Stewart of rural Ohio and keep her job in the process. Laurel and Holly come up with a plan--all Laurel has to do is pretend to own the farm for one dinner. But when Laurel shows up at the farm, an unwelcome guest is there: Max Beckett, her nemesis since Holly's wedding. The annoyingly attractive man she hates will be posing as Laurel's husband just for the evening, but when a snowstorm traps them all for the entire weekend, Laurel is going to have to figure out how to survive with her job and dignity intact. Whatever the case, this promises to be the most eventful Christmas in ages...


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    Mar 10, 2025
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    Apr 07, 2025
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    Faking Christmas probably lands around 2 1/2 stars for me. It is a single POV, enemies to lovers, fake dating, Christmas romance told from FMC Laurel's point of view. The problem is that Laurel was extremely annoying to me, and the audiobook narrator did a great job of highlighting all her most irritating characteristics. She has a very chaotic energy and believes that everything must be exactly the way that she thinks that it is. I liked the romantic tension between her and Max, but her characterization and the plot just didn't really work for me. And also, making children pretend that their aunt is their mother on Christmas is insane.

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